Endangered Languages
Subtitle: Language Loss and Community Response
Contributors: Lenore A. Grenoble (Editor); Lindsay J. Whaley (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780521591027
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Linguistic change; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistic minorities; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language attrition; Language maintenance
First sentence: It might be said with a certain metaphoric license that languages are seldom admired to death but are frequently despised to death.